Anonymous Stellar Ravines is an exhibition of images from the newly published collaboration between artist Byron Baker and Poet-in-Residence Will Alexander. This collection of prints draws on their shared Surrealist tendencies, but also demonstrates the ongoing vitality of the techniques of automatism and belief in animism central to that tradition.

Baker's works are non-representational, non-figurative, with calligraphic gestural qualities, wash, and depth, detailed lines and biomorphic passages. All are distinctive and play against each other, calling attention to their individual differences and coherence as a group. The more one looks, the more one sees.

For Alexander the concept of alchemy embodies a set of beliefs about the transmutable vibrancy of language, its capacity to shift meaning through condensation and distillation. His engagement with metaphysics is central to the channeling of energies through which he captures the activity of language.

Baker and Alexander share a connection to the lineage of Surrealism understood as a sensibility, not a style. Together the two augment each other in ways that open whole new dimensions. The visual-verbal dialogic intersections are almost refractive, each faceting the other the way a prism deconstructs visible light into a spectrum.

-- Adapted from a text by Johanna Drucker
https://johannadrucker.substack.com/p/anonymous-stellar-ravines